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 [Hurryupharry.bloghouse.net] Harry's Place: November 2003 Archives: At the risk of being forced to join Laban Tall and Private Frazer's gang regular readers will recall I've been concerned for some time about the apparent decline in the reasoning abilities of the proto-lawyers I've had to interview. I suspect this state of affairs has something to do with the fact that, as the Guardian reports, the majority of children in the country have not recently been encouraged to put their reasoned conclusions, on topics which they have assessed the evidence for and again, in written form.

 [Pbp.net] Iraqi Passport: Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi presents a provocative inside look at street-level media in Iraq, including calculatingly entertaining Ba'athist propaganda pieces, and music videos with titles like THE SADDAM RAP, which often take the form of cheap, widely-disseminated and unregulated VCDs (video compact disks). Alshaibi screens and discusses BOMBSHELL: IRAQI SECRET VIDEOS AND ARTIFACTS FROM A FALLEN REGIME (16 min.), his edited compilation of VCD clips, and his own new films shot in Iraq earlier this year.

 [Dutchreport.blogspot.com] DutchReport: February 2005: Contextual analysis of the operation in Amsterdam indicates potential motivations related to multiple contexts that could be considered relevant for Muslim immigrants to Holland, such as Dutch immigration policy and counter-terrorism efforts, the "global war on terrorism" and the invasion of Iraq, as well as increased conflict-levels in areas of political grievance and symbolic value to Islamists and Muslims in general, such as in Palestine, Chechnya and Kashmir. In addition the Van Gogh case suggests that statements by high-profile persons that are exposed in the media might be interpreted as "insults against Islam", and thus serve as partial motivation for terrorism, or at least affect the target selection of the Islamist militants, who have chosen terrorism as a strategy in the battle against the US and its allies.

 [Payvand.com] Payvand News Of Iran - Archive: As the United States and Iran edge warily toward possible rapprochement, the Iranian public makes no secret of its appetite for restoring relations formally severed in 1980, after militant students took over the U.S. Embassy here. In recent months, Iranians say, the appetite has grown for an unexpected reason: Iranian pilgrims returning from Iraq are spreading admiring stories of their encounters with American troops.

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